Billie Eilish I don’t keep up with modern music, and the mysteries of hip hop and rap, but watched some of the Brits last week, and found some of the characters interesting.  Lewis Capaldi’s song “Someone You Loved” deserved the award for Best Song, for its melody, lyrics and delivery.  The week before, Nicola Roberts […]

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Kirk Douglas (1916 -2020) Actor Kirk Douglas, who died this week at the grand old age of 103, is being hailed as one of the last stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood.  With his strikingly chiselled features, dimpled chin and piercing eyes, he put in some mesmerizing performances, in an output of more than […]

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Nicholas Parsons (1923 – 2020) Someone asked me this week if I would be writing about Nicholas Parsons, or Kobe Bryant, as obituaries of the week.  I really couldn’t decide.  So I have decided to write about both: one a nonagenarian, and one taken in his prime. Birth Chart We do not have a birth […]

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Glenda Jackson Glenda Jackson made a significant appearance on our television screens last Sunday, at the tender age of 83, in a drama production called “Elizabeth is Missing” about an elderly woman gradually suffering from increasing dementia.  This comes towards the end of a lifetime of achievement, starting with a dazzling film career in her […]

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Clive James (1939 – 2019) Polymath Clive James died this week at the age of 80, after a very long illness.  He was known for his acerbic wit, and produced a prolific quantity of books in his lifetime.  He wrote regular newspaper columns, and was in his heyday a regular personality on our television screens.  […]

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Martin Kemp “I’m a Libra and try to take a balanced view of any situation.” ~ Martin Kemp, in an interview Bassist in the band Spandau Ballet, Martin Kemp, and his wife Shirlie released their first album together on Friday, “In The Swing Of It”.  Librans are dubbed the beautiful people of the zodiac, and […]

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Strictly Come Dancing 2019 – Part 4 And so to the rest of the competitors in what has been an amazing series so far.  And it is last, but not least… Karim Zeroual I was bowled over the first time I saw this 19-year old CBeebies presenter dance; he had such a sense of style […]

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Ginger Baker “When the city of Atlantis stood serene above the sea, Long time before our time when the world was free, Those were the days.” ~ Those Were The Days, co-written by Ginger Baker and Mike Taylor, from “Wheels of Fire” 1968 Outstanding drummer Ginger Baker died last Sunday.  He didn’t like the term […]

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Strictly Come Dancing 2019 – Part 3 Powering through the next four contestants of this year’s Strictly Come Dancing, though I still have a few more to report on later in the series.  The standard seems really high this year, and is an absorbing watch! Kelvin Fletcher Kelvin Fletcher was drafted into the contest at […]

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Strictly Come Dancing 2019 – Part 2 On with Part 2 of my survey of dance contestants for this year’s Strictly Come Dancing  competition.  Last night’s dance show was quite simply thrilling! Here are the next four contestants, and hopefully, you might have heard of at least one of them… Emma Barton Emma Barton plays […]

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